November 19, 2009
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People should sing this song every time they awaken.
The Daily News
1 Yesterday I woke up and James Brown’s I Feel Good was the first thing I thought, at around 6 a.m.
2 It occurred to me that mother’s of small children should play this song every single morning at 6 a.m. and get kids up and dancing!
3 Funny, I’m actually a famously good morning person, which surprises a lot of people.
4 I love getting up sometimes as early as 4 a.m. and watching a sunrise.
5 Part of it is that I also have a history of insomnia, so I’m already up after sleeping from maybe 11 p.m. to 4 a.m., so it’s all good. I sometimes manage to get a few meteor showers in as well.
6 Either way, I always manage to wake up bright-eyed and ready to go most days.
7 What’s funny is that I wasn’t always like that.
8 Up to the age of around four I used to NEVER want to wake up, and I’d get crabby and horrid when my Mom would awaken me.
9 One fine day, however, my Mom poked her head in my room and whispered to me, “Budddddddy, time to get upppp!” and I decided to try an experiment. I thought to myself, “Dude!” (Actually, we didn’t say “Dude” when I was little. The word hadn’t been invented yet.) “You are going to HAVE to get up every morning for the remainder of your life, so why not learn to beat everyone else to it, pop right up, get a shower or something, and you will be refreshed before everyone else is up!”
10 “Dude”, by the way, actually HAD been invented, but it actually had a meaning, which was a guy all dressed up from the East Coast who tries to act like a real cowboy from the West. Here are some classic dudes:
If you were dressed too nicely, and cared about your grooming,
you were considered a “dude”, and the butt of cowboys’ jokes and pranks.11 So yeah, I said to myself, “Get up immediately, Dude!” and managed to pop right up, start my day ready to rock, and always had a healthy sense of well-being.
12 So yesterday, on very little sleep, I awakened at 6 a.m. For whatever reason, through all the exhaustion, James Brown blasted through my frabjous head. I really wanted to pop right up and start dancing!
13 I also wanted to throw the entire idea out there on my Facebook status, with the picture of James Brown thrown up there to reel in the masses.
14 I actually hopped outta the sack, jumped to the computer, and posted the picture with some sort of quick idea, just to get the idea out there when I remembered that I had called in sick because of exhaustion.
15 It doesn’t really bode well to call in sick and then post a good morning FB FAM with a picture of James Brown and a loud caption, “OW! I FEEL GOOD!!!!”
16 So I took it down instantly, you know, like you do.
17 The entire ordeal happened within the first five minutes of my having awakened, but I just thought of how amazing it would be if we could get children to learn to wake up refreshed, dancing, and ready for a new day.
18 I’m going to try it for a few days and see if it works.
19 If I get up and start dancing and moving, it’ll be eternal, because I’m a terrible dancer. But the image does carry some form of humor, not sure what, but it clearly involves a dancing bear:
20 I just envisioned people doing this every morning, and if enough people are dancing first thing in the morning, it’s going to make for a brighter, cheerier day for the rest of the world.
21 I wrote this edition of the DN last night late, but I was committed to having that the first thing I do this morning on awakening.
22 Moving on: I missed a coupla days at the gym in there this week due to paper grading, personal biz, and other nuances and life sucker punches, but I sure do intend to hit The Pond this afternoon. I’m still ahead of the game however, to the point that my family had me pose and they said, “Dude!”…okay, they DIDN’T say “dude”…but they did say “Wow, you have no belly!”
23 To which I replied without blinking, “I get the Nobelly Prize!”
24 Buh-dump.
25 <HE’S BAAACCCCCCCCCK!!!!!>
26 Think I’d bettuh go.
27 Y’all have a lovely Thursday, and fer GAWD’SAKES, dance!
28 Make it work.
29 Peace.
~H~
